Reporter Tiffany Tan

I’ve been covering the opioid epidemic since 2019, while I was a reporter in Vermont (which has seen some of the highest overdose rates in the US). But this is the first time I’ve documented in real time how investigators are working through the discovery that a new “designer drug” might be responsible for recent mysterious deaths in the community.

Mystery of Columbia woman’s death leads investigators to a new ‘designer drug’ Investigators in Columbia found a powder linked to cychlorphine, a potent designer opioid, prompting new testing of unexplained deaths.

Have to keep reminding myself I’m no longer in Massachusetts, Vermont or South Dakota. Snow falling in thick flakes as the temperature dips to below freezing in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, also known as the Palmetto State.

The home health care worker's sexual assault complaint is the latest in a story that began this summer, when the South Carolina trooper was injured in a crash during a traffic stop. He has sued the local sheriff's department, saying a deputy was partly responsible for the wreck.

Midlands caregiver accuses injured SC highway trooper of sexual assault during rehab The health care worker told Lexington investigators the SC trooper lured her to his bedroom and assaulted her while making sexually and racially explicit comments. He was injured in a crash while on duty.